Increasing demand and severe limitations on water resources in arid and semi-arid countries and developing countries, and achieve sustainable development in these areas makes it difficult. Sustainable development as a strategy to meet human needs, always emphasize the potential and the capacity of the land so that ecosystems are protected. In Isfahan province, restrictions on water resources due to population growth and economic development and the subsequent increase in demand for drinking, industry and agriculture in particular and also located in the arid and semi arid climate and lack of rainfall is due to the recent drought and this is the extent of damage to natural resources, including degradation of river and ecosystems of Gavkhooni wetland, picked up the static storage in aquifers and ground subsidence plains entered is clear. Rethinking Water managers from supply management to demand management is an important step to address the water crisis. The need to review the integrated water resources management, finding new resources and using an integrated management approach based solutions have been proposed to prevent the crisis in the water sector. Recently an index so-called water footprint representing total water consumption in the target community directly or indirectly has paved the way for investigation in the modern environmental-friendly water resources management. In this study, eight management scenarios were developed based on descriptive analytical method in terms of upstream documents strategies on water and environmentas well as evaluating historical trends on water resources and consumptions in the Isfahan province. In each scenario water footprint, the biological potential and ecological deficit was calculated and finally a superior scenario was selected so that it can meet environmental demands of Zayandehrood and Gavkhooni wetland to make balance between them as well as obviating water scarcity for different sectors in future. Keywords : Water Footprint, Carrying Capacity, Ecological Deficit, Water Resource Management, Sustainable Development, Scenario Assessment, Isfahan Province.
